Visual Designer
Location: US, MA, Cambridge
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Function: Design

Company profile:
Flight pricing is highly complex and opaque, so travelers often don't have the information they need to get the best deals on flights. Hopper provides insightful, data-driven research to help travelers make better decisions about where to go, and when to fly and buy.At Hopper, we use data sets comprising billions of flight prices to help travelers find the right destination for their budget and feel confident that they’re getting the best possible deal.WHY JOIN HOPPER?Our goals are ambitiousPlanning travel sucks — but it doesn’t have to be that way. We believe we can bring together unprecedented amounts of data in an intuitive user interface to help educate travelers with data-driven insight to improve the way the world researches and books travel.The work is interesting and challengingWe think that’s reason enough to want in. We believe that the best products are a result of daily, iterative collaboration between a high-caliber team of designers, product people and developers, with lots of input from users along the way. In this pursuit, we're constantly breaking a lot of new ground; new tools and technologies, massive amounts of data to manage, and new possibilities in design. Life is always more interesting on the steep edge of the learning curve.We hire exceptional people and keep them happyWe pay top of market, give people the flexibility to accommodate their lives outside of work, make sure we set aside time to have fun together as a team, and have zero tolerance for poor performance or political bullshit. Learn more about our team and our offices in Boston and Montreal.We’re well-fundedWe’ve raised $22M from VCs like Atlas Venture, Brightspark and OMERS Ventures. So you won’t have to spend time worrying about where your next paycheck is coming from.

Job description:
Hopper is a travel startup based in Cambridge, MA and Montreal, QC.We combine insightful research on massive data sets with intuitive design to help travelers make better decisions about where to go and when to fly and buy.We are looking for a visual designer with mobile expertise who can help refine our core experience and collaborate on the development of new features and products. Your role as a Visual Designer is to work closely with Product Managers and Developers to design useful, intuitive and delightful web and mobile experiences for travelers. You'll become part of a high-caliber product and development team whose shared goal is to design, build, evaluate and iterate to find the right product solutions as quickly as possible.Our approach to designWe believe that the best products are a result of daily, iterative collaboration between a high-caliber team of designers, product people and developers, with lots of input from users along the way. We value designers who understand iOS and Android mobile development well enough that they are able to work with "the resistance of the medium", producing delightful designs that take advantage of each platform's strengths while respecting its conventions.Problems you'll work onEvery day you'll be working on projects that will help decide the success or failure of our company. Whether you're designing a new way for travelers to shop for flights or an engaging onboarding flow, you'll be expected to think about design problems from multiple perspectives. (User goals, company goals, design cohesion, ease of implementation, etc.)

Requirements:
How your performance will be measuredAs a Visual Designer, you'll be evaluated on your ability to:Rapidly produce designs at the appropriate fidelity for the stage of the project (sketches through finished comps)Collaborate with colleagues to iterate quickly towards the most effective design (as evidenced by data)Seek out, understand and incorporate qualitative and quantitative feedbackUse good judgement about where to spend time and effortTraits that will make you successful at HopperAdaptable and comfortable with a fast-paced, agile development processA penchant for data-driven decisions, able to adapt to new or changing direction based on user feedback and market demandsNo ego when it comes to design; the focus is always on getting quickly to the right answer and doing what is right for the customer and the companyThe ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty, ambiguity, and quickly evolving goalsPositive, flexible, and resilient attitude and a sense of humor; we couldn't do our jobs without oneQualificationsExperience designing user interfaces for web or mobile productsSolid understanding of the fundamentals in visual design, responsive design, user-centered designDemonstrated ability to design and build interactive prototypes in tools like Sketch, Axure, Fireworks or HTML &amp; CSS and willingness to learn new tools as necessaryWorking knowledge of CSS/HTML or mobile front end development a big plus, but we won't expect you to write production codeExperience designing for mobile products; experience working closely with mobile development teams strongly preferredSound like a fit? Send us your resume and portfolio or links to work samples. We can’t wait to hear from you.

Benefits:
Compensation will be competitive including equity in an early stage startup backed by top-tier VCs (Atlas Venture, Brightspark and OMERS Ventures).All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.